Socrates is known as a great Greek philosopher. The Sophists happen to be the contemporary philosophers of Socrates. Socrates, as a philosopher, always distinguishes himself from the sophists. As a general definition, a philosopher is a lover of wisdom and a sophist is the person who is wise himself. Philosophy is the quest for true knowledge and sophistry is the art of rhetorically manipulating known facts. Here begins the distinctive point between Socrates and the Sophists. But this distinction is very complicated and confusing to discover. Although Socrates and the Sophists appear to have set similar goals, the difference lies in the manner and purpose of approaching these goals. Both the Sophists and Socrates belong to the same professional branch which is teaching, but the main difference is that the Sophists charge a good fee for the learning they provide. The sophists have the vanity of making people wiser. But Socrates takes no money for his efforts. He never claims to distribute wisdom among people. He is a traveling preacher of truth while the sophists are professionals who are paid by aristocratic young men especially for their teaching efforts (Chrome) Socrates and the sophists surely belong to Greece but we see that the sophists tend to travel from city to city to practice their philosophy and increase the number of their followers but this is not the case with Socrates because he is never found going from one city to another to do his teaching. He seems to be very faithful to Athens while the sophists do not stick only to Athens. This shows that the pursuit of the philosophical goals of the Sophists and Socrates have different directions. A philosopher must believe in certain ideals. In this regard,...... middle of paper ......wise people who already know everything. Socrates never claimed to know the truth, he simply believed in seeking the ultimate truth. For the sophists, knowledge is power, and those who know much should be the leaders. This fact is another main cause of distinction between Socrates and the Sophists. It is true that Socrates and the sophists belong to the same field and set a more or less important and similar goal which is knowledge and truth, but their means of achieving it and their destinations are not similar. The fundamental goals behind acquiring knowledge are very different from each other. The fact is that we cannot ignore or give less importance to either Socrates or the Sophists, because Socrates is the legend of the world of philosophy and we owe a lot to the Sophists for their rhetorical art of persuasion which is still practiced today..